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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 151
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners, with an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...Iambuses. How lov'd, how valu'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot : v A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. Be wise to-day, 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...made. So, peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What, once had beauty, titles, wealth, and i-,nc. How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! IT* PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISOX'S...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame. How tor'il, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Epitafih. A heap of dust alone remains of thee : 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. Fame. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the...
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A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a ...

John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...peaceful, rests without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame ;— A heap of dust alone remains of thee : "Tis all thou art ; and all the proud shall be ! " The morn bestowing her earliest tears ;" (poetical phraseology for dew) " the first roses...
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The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1811 - 286 pages
...the ftorm with angry brow, But in the funfhine ftrikcs the blow. fipitapb. ,, How lov'd, how valu'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom...remains of thee ; Tis all thou art, and all the proud fhall be, Fame. All fame is foreign, but of true defert ; Piays round the head, but comes not to the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...made. So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth and fame. 70 How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...Epitaph. Howflov ! d,how valu'd once, avails thee not r To whom related, or by whom begot: A Heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. : Fame. All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head^but.comes not tothe...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...the storm with angry brow But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Enitaph. How lov'd, how valu'd onee avails thee not, To whom related or by whom begot: A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'Tis all thou art and all the proud shall be. Fame. -AT. I.- / / Seleet...
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A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, with ..., Volume 5

Timothy Alden - Epitaphs - 1814 - 306 pages
...afflicted 'husband, at Cornwall, On the 14 of Sept, 1805 ; by strangers honodr'd and by strangers mourn'd. How lov'd, how honour'd once avails thee not, To whom related or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee. 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. LANCASTER, PEN. 1024. Sacred...
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